Nuff' Of The Ruff Stuff

Get funky with it
I told you before you
Burn when you play with fire
So take off your hats
Matter of fact hail the new Sire
You're hungry as hell
So I'm cookin' up the chowder
It's laced with ingredients
Gon' come on like gunpowder
Pom-pom lick a shot
Then I got the order
I'm runnin' for the border
For causin' disorder
Pom-pom lick a shot
Got on my defenses
I'm runnin' for the fences
Of course I'm relentless
The particular name of
This Queen is Latifah
I've often been classified
As a feminine teacher
Collectively capture
The heart of a nation
Love my culture and show appreciation
You're lookin' for
The black influ'
I do want too give it to you
What are you mad
Give me some of what you had
You can huff-huff
Puff-puff and bluff-bluff
But I got nuff'
Of the ruff stuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
And all that stuff
Now nuff of the ruff stuff
That's what I do
And I do it well
The proof is in the puddin'
I show and prove not show and tell
Talk tales you get
Caught up in a crossfire
Buckshot must be what
You want and desire
I write concepts
I don't be frontin' or be buggin'
I solely write the
Rhymes for the beats that you be lovin'
It's a love thang
The Queen doin' her thang
If I was a liquid
You would drink me like Tang
You think I'm kickin' things
That I myself don't even heed
I rap not for the love of music
But for greed
"Latifah's booty yo
She could never succeed"
s**t
You watch me do it and boom it
The Flavor Unit will snap necks
You a-fi listen a likkle
You fi go buy the cassette
You're starvin'
'Cause you ain't had enough
That's right
Nuff' of the ruff stuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
And all that stuff
You talk about flavor
I got enough flavor to make
A grapefruit sweet
Get old ladies jumpin'
Out of their seats
Change a peach to a pear
To a plum with a little sun 'n rays
I got flavor for days
Now I'm the type that the
Fellas call a honey and
From me you know you get
A worth for your money and
This is no meaningless attack
I gave you a chance
Matter of fact yo
I ordered them to dance for me
They tried to turn me 'Inside Out'
They felt the 'Wrath Of My Madness'
I let them 'Come Into My House'
It's called 'Latifah's Law'
For the criminal to curse
And all the gentlemen know its rule
'Ladies First'
Not the typical female that tends to
Fall victim to the 'Evil That Men Do'
Small puff I call your bluff
I'm not mad
I just had nuff' of the ruff stuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
Ruff and tuff
And all that stuff
Everybody know Latifah love positivity
Now positivity erase negativity
Mi comin' inna di dance
Incomprehensible
Me rollin' with the Flavor Unit posse
As a black woman mi want equality
Equality and di freedom to be me
Mi have a mother Rita only call her Mommy
Likkle brother and sister
Angelo and Kelly
A brother in them laws
But mi call him Winki
Lost mi daddy and you're our family
Incomprehensible black
Incomprehensible black country
Believe in one God
One tribe one destiny cease